A new cold war: hackers target fridges across the globe
NPR · Jenna McLaughlin ·
NPR investigated cyberattacks on the digital devices that control industrial refrigerators, revealing the extent to which operational technology is exposed to damage and disruption.
It was a May morning in Israel when employees at a large food production plant watched in horror as the office printers started spontaneously spitting out reams of threatening messages.
Then, employees found malicious code on corporate computers designed to wipe away internal data.
Finally, an engineer smelled smoke coming out of the industrial freezers, only to find broken compressors and badly spoiled food inside.